Journal Junction for Aug. 19

August 19, 2013

Editor's note: Journal Junction offers the public a forum to applaud successes, discuss issues, point out problems and review the events of the day in a constructive manner. Journal Junction comments should be limited to two to four sentences and be no longer than 80 words. Longer comments should be submitted as "Letters to the Editor,"?which is a separate forum. The Journal's classified ads section offers help to those with lost or found items. This is a sampling of comments received today. Any others, subject to editing, are published in the online Journal Junction at www.journal-news.net under opinions.

From Hedgesville:

Glad to see some good W.Va. Republican candidates running for Shelley Capito's seat. The exception is Alex Mooney, who recently moved to West Virginia. In Maryland he was known for his dirty campaigning and was voted the most ineffective senator by several state newspapers.

From Inwood:

To the Tabler Station HOA president and other members: It is very sad that we live in a neighborhood full of children, yet you, who are childless, will not allow the school bus to come through the neighborhood? Why? ... You and your power trip need to be out to an end. This neighborhood has gone downhill fast!

From Martinsburg:

To the person who saw her cat(s) being shot: I would definitely call the police if the cats were shot in your yard, which I doubt. If you allow your pets to run wild, you should not expect them to be treated differently than any other wild nuisance animal.

From Glengary:

To the city water works employee who jumped out of his truck at the corner of King and Kentucky to help the elderly gentleman who had fallen: Thank you for your kindness. It didn't go un-noticed.

From Renton:

I see where we had yet another National Guard drill without mass shootings by CIA mind-controlled maniacs doped up on SRIs. The Boy Scouts are still Scouting and everyone is still alive and the FEMA death camps still are not open. Could it be that conspiracist prattlers are just really really credulous morons?

From Martinsburg:

This is in reference to the political cartoon in Sunday's Journal: As with most of this particular cartoonist's offerings, the cartoon is intended to ridicule Republicans. Little does he know that if the truth was known, the rodeo clown that lost his job out of political correctness, or any other clown for that matter, would do a better job of running the country than the one currently occupying the White House.

From Berkeley County:

Has anyone else noticed that WHAG-TV out of Hagerstown doesn't seem to have news on the weekends anymore? What's up with that?

From Martinsburg:

The Declaration of Independence states that the purpose of government is to protect and secure our unalienable rights to life, liberty and property, not to control our every action. As a responsible person I have every right to use or not use seat belts, safety helmets, or ride in the back of a pickup, etc. It is not a crime to take a calculated risk and suffer the consequences. Mountaineers are fast losing their freedoms!